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Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in researchEdited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 58] 2015
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Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 58] 2015
► pp. 287–318
Theory Motivated Therapy Studies of SLI
Specific Language Impairment (SLI) may be best thought of as probabilistically determined by multiple risk and protective factors. It follows from this that the underlying deficits in SLI may vary requiring different approaches to treatment and allowing for the possibility of different strengths or facilitative effects. Not surprisingly, a range of interventions have been developed. This chapter reviews available approaches and evidence in light of theories related to SLI deficits in domain-specific or domain-general processes, and evidence tapping potential protective factors related to SLI. Finally, the optimization of variables that support the learning context are discussed. The goal is to provide an overview of theoretically motivated SLI therapy from which specific interventions matched to particular children’s profiles can be developed.
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